The statement noted that Chairman Kim Jong Il provided a historic Pyongyang summit again in October 2007 to adopt and publish the October 4 declaration, an action programme for achieving peace of the country and prosperity common to the Korean nation by fully applying the June 15 joint declaration.

It said that the great feats of Kim Jong Il, who opened up a bright prospect for realizing the cause of national independence and great unity, are being firmly defended and shedding brighter rays thanks to Chairman of the State Affairs Commission Kim Jong Un, who is ushering in a new era of the development of the south-north relations and national reunification.

It pointed out that Kim Jong Un provided a sure guarantee for vigorously developing the south-north relations on a new high stage on the principle of national independence and self-determination, through the historic April and May Panmunjom summits and the September Pyongyang summit.

The south-north summit and the announcement of the "September Pyongyang Joint Declaration", welcomed by the people at home and abroad and the whole world with emotion and excitement, are a precious fruition of Chairman Kim Jong Un's steadfast will for independent reunification, bold decision and ardent patriotism, it said.

People from all walks of life in the south are now vigorously turning out in the struggle to implement the historic "September Pyongyang Joint Declaration", it noted.

It stressed that the vanguard fighters of the AINDF and the patriotic people will put their heart and soul into the struggle to implement the April 27 Panmunjom Declaration and the "September Pyongyang Joint Declaration", programmes of independent reunification in the era of Kim Jong Un, with the confidence that the national reconciliation, prosperity and reunification will be brought earlier thanks to Kim Jong Un respected by all the fellow countrymen as a peerless patriot and great sage.